[LINK] bug hits NAB

[Jan Whitaker]

http://theage.com.au/business/2001/09/20/FFXESOG0SRC.html

NAB virus causes customer
                    headache


                    By ELI GREENBLAT
                    Thursday 20 September 2001

                    National Australia Bank was hit by a computer virus 
yesterday,
                    shutting down the phone, Internet and share-trading 
services of the
                    nation's biggest bank.

                    A spokeswoman for NAB could not confirm whether the 
virus was
                    the World Trade Centre bug, also dubbed "WTC", which 
has played
                    havoc with computer systems around the world.

                    A virus called "Nimda" could also have been to blame. Nimda
                    assaulted various global networks yesterday, infecting 
some sections
                    of Microsoft's Japanese-language Internet site.

JLWhitaker Associates
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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